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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Commentary, Line 71: parents through Line 101: No free man needs a God.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does John Shade's daughter die?
(a) She poisons herself.
(b) She steps in front of a train.
(c) She freezes to death in a field.
(d) She drowns.

2. John Shade is skeptical but he wants to believe in what?
(a) His daughther is still alive.
(b) His lineage of Zemblan Kings.
(c) The after-life.
(d) Religion.

3. How did King Alfin the Vague die?
(a) He had a stroke.
(b) He committed suicide.
(c) In a plane crash.
(d) He was assassinated.

4. Charles Kinbote criticizes an article written by Professor Hurley for what reason?
(a) The article does not mention "Pale Fire."
(b) The article is critical of John Shade.
(c) The article doesn't mention Kinbote and Shade's friendship.
(d) It does not mention Zembla.

5. "Forty ounces of fine sand" describes what in Canto One?
(a) A bird's nest.
(b) The texture of a windowpane.
(c) A length of time.
(d) Snow falling from the sky.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happened to Shade's parents when he was a boy?

2. Which pair best describe the prominent motifs of the first Canto?

3. Kinbote leaves his blinds open to give him a better view of what?

4. Where do the Shade's travel to take their minds off their daughter's death?

5. What did Charles Kinbote do with the cat?

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